Pictures in place : the figured landscapes of rock-art

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Pictures in place : the figured landscapes of rock-art

edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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The figured landscapes of rock-art

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A companion to: The archaeology of rock-art: Cambridge, 1998

Includes bibliographical references and index

Paperback: 25 cm

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge, 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Pictures in place: approaches to the figured landscapes of rock-art Christopher Chippindale and George Nash
  • Part I. Principles of Landscape and Rock-Art in Practice: 2. Worlds within stone: the inner and outer rock-art landscapes of northern Australia and southern Africa Paul S. C. Tacon and Sven Ouzman
  • 3. Rock-art, landscape, sacred places: attitudes in contemporary archaeological theory Daniel Arsenault
  • 4. Locational analysis in rock-art studies William D. Hyder
  • 5. From millimetre up to kilometre: a framework of space and of scale for reporting and studying rock-art in its landscape Christopher Chippindale
  • 6. The canvas as the art: landscape-analysis of the rock-art panel James D. Keyser and George Poetschat
  • 7. The landscape setting of rock-painting sites in the Brandberg (Namibia): infrastructure, Gestaltung, use and meaning Tilman Lenssen-Erz
  • Part II. Informed Methods: Opportunities and Applications: 8. Rock-art and the experienced landscape: the emergence of late-Holocene symbolism in north-east Australia Bruno David
  • 9. Linkage between rock-art and landscape in Aboriginal Australia Josephine Flood
  • 10. Places of power: the placement of Dinwoody petroglyphs across the Wyoming landscape Lawrence Loendorf
  • 11. Friends in low places: rock-art and landscape on the Modoc Plateau David S. Whitley, Johannes H. N. Loubser and Don Hann
  • 12. Dangerous ground: a critique of landscape in rock-art studies Benjamin W. Smith and Geoffrey Blundell
  • Part III. Formal Methods: Opportunities and Applications: 13. Landscapes in rock-art: rock-carving and ritual in the old European North Knut Helskog
  • 14. From natural settings to spiritual places in the Algonkian sacred landscape: an archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic analysis of Canadian Shield rock-art sites Daniel Arsenault
  • 15. The topographic engravings of Alpine rock-art: fields, settlements and agricultural landscapes Andrea Arca
  • Part IV. Pictures of Pictures: 16. Walking through landscape: a photographic essay of the Campo Lameiro Valley, Galicia, north-western Spain George Nash, Lindsey Nash and Christopher Chippindale.

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  • NCID
    BA73906975
  • ISBN
    • 0521818796
    • 0521524245
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 400 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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